'Degraded' should be banned in status pages. It sounds just irresponsible, like "Yeah, it can be slow or something sometime. Whatever. Who cares"
Straight-up, "degraded" should strictly mean "may be slower, or so slow it randomly fails" on these kinds of status pages.
The whales are all dying, and we don't know why. Well, some are still alive for now though so maybe it's not so bad...
How would you call "available, but only sometimes"?